INTERNATIONAL

The African Union on Tuesday said it feels ”deep regret” over the withdrawal of  Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from ECOWAS. The AU said its commission president, Moussa Faki Mahamat, “calls on regional leaders to intensify the dialogue between the ECOWAS leadership and the…

Uganda has said that the opinion of one judge, Julia Sebutinde on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) disagreeing with the panel’s decision in South Africa’s genocide lawsuit against Israel, does not represent Uganda’s perspective. Sebutinde was the only judge on the 17-member…

Catholic Pontiff Pope Francis said in an interview published on Monday that Africans were a “special case” in the opposition of bishops and many other people in the continent to homosexuality. He also said he was confident that except for Africans, critics of his decision…

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Republic announced, on Sunday, that they had quit their membership of the Economic Community of West African States. The three countries, which are currently under military rule, said they ceased to be members of ECOWAS as the regional…

Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed at least 13 former and current state employees while senior staff looked the other way and retaliated against some of his accusers, according to a new settlement agreement between the New York executive chamber and the U.S. Department…

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled in favor of South Africa’s request for provisional measures in its case against Israel over the ongoing war on Gaza. The request is part of an application filed by Pretoria, accusing Israel of violating…

A verdict has been reached in Donald Trump’s defamation trial in the second such case brought against him by writer E Jean Carroll. The New York jury has ordered him to pay her a total of $83.3m in damages. The former president testified for just three minutes on…

Former Spanish football chief, Luis Rubiales, will be banned from the game for three years, world football governing body FIFA confirmed Friday after rejecting his appeal. “The Appeal Committee was comfortably satisfied that Mr Rubiales behaved in a manner contrary to the…

A Baltimore County Circuit Court in the United States of America presided over by Theresa Adams, has slammed a record $50,000 damages on a US-based Nigerian blogger, Funke Ashekun, for defaming the General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Dr Daniel…